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Dr. Lu earned a MD degree from the University of Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine
and a MS in Physiology from the University of Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Lu attended graduate school at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
and earned his PhD in Anatomy. In April 1994, he was recognized by the Pennsylvania
State University College of Medicine Class of 1997 for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Lu then went to the California Institute of Technology to continue postdoctoral
studies in cerebellar research using in vitro, in vivo and computational modeling
methods. He received a NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Service Award
(NRSA) Training Grant.

After moving to the Research Imaging Center, UTHSCSA, his research expanded to imaging
studies using MRI techniques. He was also involved in teaching graduate and medical
students to do basic science. He was then promoted to research assistant professor.
He is now teaching Gross Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience for the osteopathic medical
students at GA-PCOM. He also teaches Experimental Design and Data Analysis in Biomedical
Science Program.

Dr. Lu has established a lab capable of doing both in vivo and in vitro studies of
cerebellar function in GA campus. Meanwhile, he is conducting collaborative research
as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University
using electrophysiological and optogenetic methods. This research was supported by
CCDA and NIH grants.

Noradrenergic Modulation in the Cerebellar Cortex: from in vitro to in computo Chinese
Conference on Biomedical Engineering 1999 Southeast University Nanjing, November 1999

What modulates the activity of neurons? Research Imaging Center, UTHSCSA, San Antonio,
April 2002 Cerebellar Plasticity: For the Sake of Motor Learning or Metabolic Modulation?
Research Imaging Center, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, November 2005

Spontaneous and Evoked Activities in the Cerebellar Cortex: in vivo Extracellular
Recordings Using Rats Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse,
NIH Baltimore, November 2007